Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Scam - The Charles Ingram story
02 Feb 2025
This is the story of Charles Ingram and how he cheated on the popular game show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire
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So this guy is about to cheat at a game show and it's gonna make him rich. Now his name is Charles and Charles is a Major in the British Army and he's also broke as f***. And one day he's with his wife, this woman, Diana, and he and Diana are looking at their finances and they're like, oh bugger. How are we going to pay all this debt? Here's the thing though.
Not too long before this, Diana and her brother had both competed on a game show. Who wants to be a millionaire? And by doing that, they won a little bit of money. So Diana and Charles think, what if Charles goes on the show? Maybe he could win a bunch of money and that would more than get them out of debt. And that's a great plan. But there's a problem. Charles is kind of a dumbass.
I mean, he's not dumb. He's just not the kind of person who knows the answers to a bunch of random trivia questions. And who wants to be a millionaire is not something he would naturally be good at. So he and Diana come up with a plan. A plan to cheat. And we'll get to that plan. Anyway, they sign Charles up to compete on the show. They wait and finally the big moment comes. Game day.
They go to the studio and he starts the first round of the show called Fastest Finger First. Who was fastest? Charles Ingram in three. He makes it through that round and now he's on to the quiz part. In der Quiz-Szene kämpft er mit den ersten Fragen. Wenn er die 4.000-Pound-Szene bekommt, hat er bereits zwei von seinen Lifelines verwendet. Er ist also nicht gut im Spiel.
Dann endet der erste Tag im Filmen. Die Produzenten denken, dass Charles keine Chance hat. Er ist dumm. Er kämpft mit einfachen Fragen. Aber anyway, Charles and Diana go home and this is where they enact their plan to cheat. The plan is, Diana wants to feed Charles answers while she's sitting in the audience.
And they know they can't use like an earpiece to communicate or anything like that, because the show would check for that and they'd get caught. So instead, they decide to go even simpler. All the show questions are multiple choice. So, they're just gonna have Diana sit in the audience and when Charles is about to answer a question, when he says the correct answer out loud, she'll cough.
And in order to make the plan foolproof, they call this guy, Wittek. And Wittek... Er ist ein gut genuger Kerl, er ist ein College-Lektor und er war auch schon drei Mal auf dem Show. Und er wird den nächsten Tag versuchen. Sie fragen Wittek, ob er ihnen mit ihrem Scam helfen kann. Und Wittek sagt, ja, guter Show, oder was auch immer. Und so wird er auch auf den Seitenlinien kacken.
Dann, die nächste Nacht, gehen sie alle zurück in den Studio, um zu beenden. Und Charles ist im Hotseat. Und Diana sitzt im Publikum. Und Wittek sitzt auf den Seitenlinien. Und Charles, er wird gefragt, wer der zweite Mann von Jackie Kennedy ist. Und wenn er eine Antwort lest, und wenn er die richtige lest, kackt entweder Diana oder Wittek oder jemand.
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